First Light

The brief

Risendune needed a film of its own: something to show the Motion side of the studio, and to post on X. It had to come from the identity rather than sit on top of it: the contour lines that draw the website, and the sun that rises over them.

The approach

The film is a flight over the same contour-line dunes as the site, at dawn.

• A gold line ignites in the dark and races up a giant dune, with the camera chasing it.
• Over the crest, the sun breaks the horizon and a wave of light rolls back across the dunes.
• The lens closes in on the sun, and the contour lines rise through it until it becomes the Contour Sun, the studio’s mark.
• Everything is drawn live in three.js from one timeline, so the page plays it in real time and every frame of the video is that same picture.

Delivered

• An 18-second brand film, in 16:9 for the site and 1:1 for X.
• A live version that plays in the browser, with a scrubber.
• A loop for the portfolio’s dune field, and stills.